Thursday, November 11, 2010

Traffic Issues in Bangkok


This news is about Thailand traffic problems and what is a solution that may be a perfect solution. This news is very interested because they show the real number of accident that exists in Bangkok. In present day, in Bangkok, if we want to go to anywhere first thing that we have to meet before we reach our destination is traffic jam.

Thailand is known as country that have a really bad traffic and people struck in their own car or the buses too much. Therefore, According to Felix that every 36 minutes at least one people died in traffic accident. Then, that means every years Thai people will died immediately 14,000 on the road. Moreover, it can count up to 20,000 if count people who died at hospitals after taken of the crash scene. Therefore, Thailand is on top 20 of most dangerous countries for road accident. In some place, Thailand not even installed a traffic light, or did not set it in sensible timings. In addition, if Thailand keeps this problem going, so it will make a lot of pollution that may effects the global. All in all, Thailand should build a bigger road to reduce traffic problem, but using a public transport is also a good idea.

In conclusion, Thailand has really bad traffic problems that mostly happen in Bangkok. Government has no solution to fix these problems. Additionally, it also has traffic police that always like carp people, so traffic get worse. Personally, people should fix these problems by using public transport because we cannot wait for government, so we have to corporate. Public transport is not the only solution, and then we can find our solution. However, no matter what is the solution to you, but we have to avoid using private car in order to help the earth, other people, your countries and yourself.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Oil and Gas in Thailand

   

  This news is about oil and gas in Thailand, everyone in Thailand used oil and gas everyday to transporting. However, mostly, people in Thailand that consume oil did not know how much Thailand imported oil per day. Therefore, I write this post to give information about oil and gas that Thai people consumes per day. Moreover, the Gulf of Thailand is the place that natural gas fields of almost every country located.

  Thailand had inadequate oil production, so generally they have to import from other countries. Thailand is the second of largest that import oil in South East Asia. For that reason, 309.1 thousand barrels is the number of crude oil that Thai people use per day. Along with, 910.73 thousand barrels is the number of oil that Thai people use for each day. The oil manufacturing in Thailand is conquered by PTT (the Petroleum Authority of Thailand). PTT also partly control oil price in Thailand, and own natural gas producing fields named Bong Kot that is the largest field.
  To sum up, Thailand use a lot of oil every day to consume, and it not enough for Thai people. In Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand, has very bad traffic because it too many cars on road. Thus, Thailand has produced some of oil to use in domestic, but it still insufficient. Personally, even though, Thailand can produce or import an enough oil for Thai people; however, it going to follow by other problem. For example, Traffic problems, increased accident problem etc. Accordingly, Thailand has to persuade Thai citizens to use a public transportation, and I believed that Thailand will get different perfect solution.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Taxes on Vehicles

      Every cars in Thailand have a tax dise on the windscreen, but in order to get the tax dise the owners of the car have to pay tax. I chose this news because it related to my topic, and some owners of the car do not know that how to pay for get a tax dise.

    Tax on vehicle is depend on the age of vehicles. Older car means less amount of tax that have to pay, and those tax can pay to an authorised vehicle service provider or the road and traffic authority. After 6 years of being the owners of the car, the road and traffic authority will checks cars condition. Whether, go to the trustable garage that can check your cars completely. On your car windscreen also have a insulance dise. Every car should have a insulance in order to make sure that you will not have to pay for your own repairment.

  All in all, every car have a tax dise and a insulance dise on their windscreen, but some people who drive do not know what those dises mean. Therefore, tax dise have to change every years, because the owner have to pay tax every years. However, for insulance tax it depend on the contract that the owner have made.

Monday, November 1, 2010

New Source of Energy

I chose this news because this information is perfectly useful and relate directly to my topic. Althoght, in planet, there are many problems with crude oil, there are not much left in earth. In this news, there show about new source of energy. Therefore, those new source of energy are not as good as bensin and diesel.

There are new kind of energy to support petrol engines or conversion to gas. In addition, there are E10, E20 and E85 for petrol engines, and NGV with LPG for convertion to gas. E from E10, E20 and E85 stand for the proportion of ethanol, and its available wide spread in gas station. In the past, Thailand about to use NGV but because it too expensive and it not available for comsumer demand. Hence, LPG is more dangerous but it more available because taxi meter in Thailand use LPG for a several decades. In addition, LPG is fluid gas which also used in gas for cooking.

To summarize, althought, bensin and diesel are hard to find everyday, E10, E20,E85,NGV and LPG are hope for not only in Thailand but also every country. In my opinion, these new source of energy is great but eventually it will end the same with bensin and diesel. Moreover, we need to find other ways to support people need to, because those new source of energy are fix the problem at consequence. Then, people have to think to fix the problem at original cause in order to fix it completely.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Different Taxes that Thai Resident have to Pay Per Years

I chose this because it partly rely to my topic in term paper, and it is perfectly useful. Moreover, everybody can find that its have a useful knowledge that people in Thailand have to know. Some Thai resident did not realized that how many bath that they have to pay per years. I will show some several taxes that important, and it is a good information to know.

According to this article, there are two type primary taxes that is direct taxes and indirect taxes. Indirect taxes have a value added tax, a specific business tax,a customs duty, property tax and etc. Direct taxes include personal income tax and etc. It seem like that it have many taxes to pay for individual, but do not panic because only people that gain salary more than hundred-thousand have to pay an individual taxes. All of it are important but it have some different purpose of taxes, it is vehicals tax. For example, goverment increased tax in cigarette because they want people to quit smoking. Similarly, with vehicles, goverment should increse tax on vehicles in order to reduce car use.

To sum up, I show roughly about taxation in Thailand, but all in all it about how Thai goverment set their tax and what is a purpose. This article just show how Thai resident pay their taxes every years and who is a choice to pay.